Me thinks she protests too much

I've seen this report being made a big deal of, but since reconstruction has ceased, maybe we just need a Congressional investigation or Special Prosecutor looking into the problems. I mean, certainly it is typical stuff coming from this Congress, but really what is needed is a larger investigation with a broader and more profound mission anyway, and without this bureaucratic auditor, maybe a broader investigation with real consequences to the Bush administration will be set in motion by the next Congress.

Susan Collins, a Maine Republican who followed the bill closely as chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, says that she still does not know how the provision made its way into what is called the conference report, which reconciles differences between House and Senate versions of a bill.

Neither the House nor the Senate version contained such a termination clause before the conference, all involved agree.

“It’s truly a mystery to me,” Ms. Collins said. “I looked at what I thought was the final version of the conference report and that provision was not in at that time.”

She didn’t know what was in the bill even though she wrote and signed it? She is either very stupid, or she thinks we are stupid enough to believe her denials. I mean really, we aren't all as stupid as the NY Times apparently is.